You press on, thinking more and more about the volcano. You can feel the valley turn upward, rising slowly so that you'll be at the base of the volcano when you get to it. But before the path ends, something very odd approaches you. Odd, perhaps, even for the Wood.
You could have mistaken it to be a canine, except the face reminds you of some kind of rodent. Yellow and cyan make up her coat, and she seems to be walking in zig-zag format. She looks up at you with lazy eyes and sits.
"'ey there, wanderor," she says, with a weird hiss in her voice. "Callin' me Sieglard's yer best route, I say."
You give a very brief introduction and cast a weary eye up to the volcano.
"Ehehe," she says, more of a statement than a laugh. "I betcha thought it would be a hard climbin' that one? Well nah, you just gotta enter the side 'ere." She points her snout over to a small tunnel. "It'll lead ya right out ter the top and back down ter the other side."
"What's on the other side?" you ask.
"Ehehe," she says again, before leaving you to it.
